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I still prefer incandescent and halogen. I only use CFLs in lights that I leave on for long periods of time but don't spend much time in (hallways, etc). Being in a room with CFLs gives me a headache after a while. They also don't get bright until they have been on for a while. During that time, that dim, gross flickering light is not very comfortable.
I did buy some Phillips LED bulbs for shooting video and they are bright and light up immediately. I will probably start buying more of them for room lighting as my bulbs die. Never tried them for this, but I might as well give it a shot
I didn't know they stopped selling incandescents in Canada? that's crazy... You can still get them here easily, but I wonder for how long
the ban became official today but stores had stopped carrying them a couple years ago (when the ban was originally meant to be imposed)
part of "going green" -_-
Yeah that makes a lot of sense to "go green" in one of the few places on earth that have clean, cheap, plentiful energy
I won't get started on the "go green" thing, although I got pretty mad when I went to Ikea to buy replacement halogens for my kitchen, and they only had LEDs. In fact, they didn't carry ANY halogens or incandescents. They have all been replaced by gross CFLs and LEDs, and tons of propaganda about "GOING GREEN"
Of course much of the store lighting was halogen, because fluorescent and LEDs would make their products look gross.
You get headaches SkinnyPupp... why would our governments, the ones you're constantly defending, want to give unexpecting people (possibly in the millions considering the USA) health problems without even giving any kind of package warning?
Let us consider the children and teenagers who would never fathom such a phenomenon and are helpless to change their environment... then you have our scientists and media which are mute on the subject... is this just for governments to make a quick buck?
from the original link
Spoiler!
Electrical Sensitivity
Electrical sensitivity, also known as electrical hypersensitivity and electromagnet hypersensitivity, is a recognized disability with chronic and systematic reactions to electromagnet fields given off by wiring, electrical equipment, transformers and florescent lighting — including CFLs. Approximately 8 million Americans experience electrical sensitivities, according to the Research & Training Center on Independent Living. It causes nervous system symptoms such as headache, fatigue, stress and sleep disturbances; skin symptoms including prickling, burning sensations and rashes, and pain and ache to muscles, as well as many other health problems. CFLs contribute to electrical sensitivity by emitting electromagnetic radiation.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Electromagnet radiation, also known as electromagnetic frequencies — EMF — is a naturally occurring energy. Technological advances such as CFL bulbs have increased the EMF in modern environments. The electromagnet radiation bundle includes dirty electricity — sometimes called dirty power — electrical pollution and radio waves. Most of the EMF fields experienced every day and emitted from CFL bulbs are non-ionizing radiation and considered safe. However, for people with electrical sensitivity, CFL bulbs have significant accumulative dangers, according to ElectroSensitivity UK News.
In some controversial threads, you've sided and posted the same main stream media views... just a couple of weeks ago in the bitcoin thread you label me in your category of "nut jobs" for my revelations.
"I disagree, but at least you aren't making a complete idiot out of yourself with all the "radiation" speak and conspiracy theories. "
You're pretty quick to judge... yet we find that there are people like yourself who are effected by a different type of dirty electricity too... getting the same kind of headaches as I show in the TV video later in the same thread http://www.revscene.net/forums/66707...ml#post8285595
Charles will a hat made out of aluminum foil and grounded to my testicles via alligator clips prevent the effect of dirty electricity on my mind?
No that clip would have to be touching "ground" to reduce the effects... whether its to a grounding pad to the electric outlets grounding hole, or to a grounding pad which the its wire penetrates outside of your window and into the ground.
No that clip would have to be touching "ground" to reduce the effects... whether its to a grounding pad to the electric outlets grounding hole, or to a grounding pad which the its wire penetrates outside of your window and into the ground.
In winter climates like ours, incandescents are 100% efficient. All the waste energy of an incandescent is heat, heat that your furnace doesn't have to put into your home.
I've heard of lighting upgrades in buildings to "high efficiency lamps" where after the upgrades the demand on the heating system went up just as much to compensate. In some cases, the heating systems weren't adequate for the additional loads and had to be upgraded as well.
CFL's are shit. Even with the new CFL's I can notice a warm-up time, and they get worse with age. I have a few left in my house which I'll be changing out to LED's soon. LED's just need to come down in price.
I don't think this whole issue with light bulbs is something the government needed to legislate. If people want to use incandescent light bulbs and are willing to pay for the energy to do so then so fucking be it.
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